Talon Myburgh
Co-Founder at Rhodes University
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolTalon Myburgh is a co-founder and FPGA/HDL specialist with 8 years’ experience building radio telescope backends, high-performance data acquisition systems, and real-time DSP for scientific instruments. He has delivered FPGA gateware and automated calibration for projects with the SETI Institute, the CASPER collaboration at UC Berkeley, and Discovery Insurance, blending hands-on commissioning at the VLA with rigorous regression-tested HDL libraries. Currently completing a PhD while running Mydon Solutions, Talon combines computational physics, embedded hardware design, and HPC/systems administration to push real-time transient detection and technosignature search pipelines. He brings a rare mix of academic rigor and field deployment know-how, including experience denoising dynamic spectra and integrating FPGA modules into MATLAB/Simulink workflows.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
IEB - National Senior Certificate General Schooling, IEB - National Senior Certificate General Schooling at Michael Mount Waldorf SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics and Electronics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics and Electronics at Rhodes University
Github Skills (48)
vhdl10
simulator9
hardware9
masters9
fft9
testbench9
fpga8
gcc8
electron7
llvm7
simulation7
unit-testing7
verification7
typescript7
ghdl7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
COSMIC-SETI/COSMIC-VLA-DelayEngine
Oct 2022 - Dec 2025
Contributions:11 reviews, 18 PRs, 159 pushes in 3 years 2 months
talonmyburgh/casper_dspdevel
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
VHDL development of the CASPER FFT for use in the CASPER toolflow.
Contributions:2 reviews, 498 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years 7 months
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